Iambic tetrameter is a poetic meter consisting of four feet with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Emily Dickinson often used this meter, alternating with iambic trimeter. Each word can be divided into syllables with stressed and unstressed beats. Iambic tetrameter is a form of meter used in poetry consisting of four feet […]
Tetrameter is a poetic meter with four “feet” per line, each with varying structures. The meter of a poem indicates its rhythm, with tetrameter having eight or 12 syllables per line. The feet are based on syllables, not words, and can be written in various ways. Meter is not absolute, and variations are common. Iambic […]
